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Dan Malsch has worked with Ghost Gojira & Avenged Sevenfold. In his course he opens the actual mix session for Monolith’s “Mother Martyr,” featuring Mike Mangini on drums. Huge drums, aggressive bass, wide guitars, powerful vocals, hybrid mix bus. promixacademy.com/course/dan…

Dan Malsch has worked on massive modern rock and metal records with Ghost, Gojira and Avenged Sevenfold, including Ghost’s Skeletá, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. In this new Pro Mix Academy course, Dan opens the actual mix session for Monolith’s “Mother Martyr,” featuring Mike Mangini on drums, and shows how he builds huge drums, aggressive bass, wide guitars, powerful vocals and a hybrid analogue mix bus. All of the multitracks are included, so you can follow along and mix the song yourself. @ProMixAcademy promixacademy.com/course/dan…

I found these old ticket stubs recently and they reminded me why live music is still the future. Neil Young. Buddy Guy and Junior Wells. The Stones. Miles Davis. Tower of Power. Albert King. Clapton at the Royal Albert Hall. As a kid, those shows were not just entertainment. They were education. They taught me feel, phrasing, tone, dynamics and the power of being in a room with people making music in real time. So much of the music conversation now is about streams, playlists, algorithms, catalogue value and short-form content. All of that matters. I have spent my life making records. However, the record is the invitation. The live show is the communion. Every performance is unique. The room is different. The audience is different. The band is different. The moment can never be repeated in quite the same way. That is why live music matters even more in the age of AI. AI can imitate sound. It can generate endless recorded material. However, it cannot stand in a room with you. It cannot feel the audience inhale before the first note. It cannot create that one night where something happens that nobody planned. Artists also need to understand scale. Not every tour is going to make hundreds of millions. Not every artist should be chasing arenas. A 150-cap room can be a triumph. A 500-cap theatre can be life changing. The future is not just bigger shows. It is smarter, more human experiences. Because when people get together with music, something happens.

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Want to see exactly how Dan Malsch builds a massive modern rock mix from the inside? In his @ProMixAcademy course, Dan opens the real session for Monolith’s “Mother Martyr,” featuring Mike Mangini on drums, and breaks down the drums, bass, guitars, vocals, automation and hybrid mix bus processing that make the track hit so hard. You’ll also get all of the multitracks included, so you can follow along, try the techniques yourself and build your own mix from the same session. Check out the course here: promixacademy.com/course/dan…

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Want to see exactly how Dan Malsch builds a massive modern rock mix from the inside? Check out his @ProMixAcademy course for Monolith’s “Mother Martyr,” featuring Mike Mangini on drums, and breaks down the drums, bass, guitars, vocals Check out the course promixacademy.com/course/dan…

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David Dalton’s Driftwork Sound Studio is a brilliant reminder that great records do not require a massive commercial room. youtube.com/watch?v=B1IYcDYH…

Perfectionism has stopped more music being made than lack of talent ever has. I’ve seen incredibly gifted artists sit on songs for months, sometimes years, because the vocal wasn’t “perfect”, the guitar sound wasn’t “there yet”, the lyric needed “one more pass”, or the mix wasn’t quite finished. At some point, perfection stops being a standard and starts becoming fear wearing a very convincing disguise.

R.I.P. Sonny Rollins. I first heard Sonny as a little kid in my Dad’s record collection. A Night at the Village Vanguard was fearless, alive and completely inspiring. Years later, hearing him on The Rolling Stones’ “Waiting On A Friend” blew me away. My Dad was so impressed that the Stones used someone of Sonny’s calibre. That solo is pure beauty. A true giant. Thank you, Sonny.